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Current Affairs Roundup - 2020

Appointments
New chairman and CEO of the Railway Board
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved the appointment of Suneet
Sharma as the new chairman and CEO of the Railway Board.
H Sharma is a Special Class Railway Apprentice Officer of the 1978 batch. He has earlier
served as the general manager of Modern Coach Factory, Raebareli, and divisional r
ailway manager, Pune, Central Railway.

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Media and entertainment executive Uday Shankar has been selected as President-Elect, FICCI for the
year 2020-21. He succeeded Sangita Reddy, President, FICCI, and Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals
Group during FICCI’s 93rd AGM.
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A new Secretary-General to Lok Sabha & Lok Sabha Secretariat
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has appointed Utpal Kumar Singh as Secretary-General, Lok Sabha and
Lok Sabha Secretariat.
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Supreme Court judge Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman has been appointed as the

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chairperson of its legal services committee.
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Court Legal Services Committee (SCLSC) with immediate effect in the wake of the
retirement of Justice Arun Mishra, who held the post since November last year.

BRICS honorary advisor Tina Dabi

IAS officer Tina Dabi has been appointed honorary advisor to the steering committee for BRICS
Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) Young Leaders.
H The appointment is for the session 2020 to 2023.

Raveesh Kumar appointed India's next Ambassador to Finland

Former spokesperson of the External Affairs Ministry Raveesh Kumar has been appointed as India's
next Ambassador to Finland. He succeeds Vani Rao.
H He is a 1995-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, served as the spokesperson of the MEA from July
2017 to April 2020.

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Gaitri Kumar appointed India's next High Commissioner to the UK
Gaitri I Kumar has been appointed as India's next High Commissioner to the United
Kingdom, the External Affairs Ministry said. She is a 1986-batch Indian Foreign Service
officer, succeeds Ruchi Ghanashyam.
H At present, Kumar is serving as Indian Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and
the European Union.

Arundhati Bhattacharya as Chairman and CEO of Salesforce India

US-based cloud-based software services company Salesforce has appointed Arundhati Bhattacharya,
former chairman of SBI, as its chairman and CEO for its Indian operations.
H Salesforce was set up in Hyderabad in 2016.
H After completing his tenure at SBI, Bhattacharya was appointed a board member of Reliance Industries
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